He who is not actively kind is cruel!

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.